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* Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon ( d. 1509 ) ( forfeited at his death by son ’ s attainder ; restored 1512 to his grandson )
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One of Mary's first actions as queen was to order the release of the Roman Catholic Duke of Norfolk and Stephen Gardiner from imprisonment in the Tower of London, as well as her kinsman Edward Courtenay.
Edward Courtenay and Reginald Pole were both mentioned as prospective suitors, but her cousin Charles V suggested she marry his only son, Prince Philip of Spain.
The film version of The Dresser stars Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Zena Walker, Eileen Atkins, Michael Gough and Edward Fox.
Courtenay was a younger son of Hugh de Courtenay, 10th Earl of Devon ( d. 1377 ), and through his mother Margaret, daughter of Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, was a great-grandson of Edward I.
John Edward Courtenay Bodley, the historian, and his son, R. V. C. Bodley, the author, descended from Sir Thomas Bodley.
Sir Edward de Courtenay, the third son, also died before his father, but left two sons, Edward, the 11th Earl, and Hugh.
Sir Edward Courtenay, grandnephew of the 11th Earl, fought on the winning side at the Battle of Bosworth.
William Courtenay, his only son, married Catherine of York, a younger daughter of Edward IV, around 1495.
Edward Courtenay, his only surviving son, was a prisoner in the Tower of London for fifteen years, from his father's arrest to the beginning of Mary's reign, when he was released and created, as the fifth creation, Earl of Devon.
With his death, unmarried, the male line of Sir Edward de Courtenay was extinct ; and the Earldom with it, or so everybody thought.
* Edward de Courtenay, 3rd Earl of Devon ( 1357 – 1419 ), grandson
Original Difference ( heraldry ) | undifferenced Coat of Arms of the House of Courtenay: Or, three Roundel | torteaux, as shown sculpted within a Order of the Garter | Garter on the chancel arch of St Peter's Church, Tiverton, Devon, being the arms of Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon ( 1485 creation ) | Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon, Order of the Garter | KG ( d. 1509 )
Arms of William Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon ( 1475 – 1511 ): Quarterly 1st & 4th, Courtenay ; 2nd & 3rd Redvers, as sculpted on south porch of St Peter's Church, Tiverton, Devon, impaling the arms of King Edward IV, the father of his wife Princess Katherine
* Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon ( 1527 – 1556 ) ( also restored in blood, but not honours, 1553 ; fifth creation dormant 1556 †) son of Henry above.
* William Courtenay, 2nd Earl of Devon ( 1529 – 1557 ), of Powderham, distant cousin of Edward above,
* Edward Baldwin Courtenay, 12th Earl of Devon ( 1836 – 1891 )
Edward and 1st
The title of Baron Abergavenny, in the Nevill family, dates from Edward Nevill, 3rd Baron Bergavenny ( d. 1476 ), who was the youngest son of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland by his second wife Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt, first Duke of Lancaster.
* 1862 – Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, English politician ( d. 1933 )
Kevin Kiernan argues that Nowell most likely acquired it through William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, in 1563, when Nowell entered Cecil ’ s household as a tutor to his ward, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.
* Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon 1923 – 1924
Edward le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer also fought at Poitiers under The Black Prince.
* The Coming Race ( 1871 ) ( reprinted as Vril: The Power of the Coming Race ) by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton PC ( 25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873 ), was an English politician, poet, playwright, and novelist.
They had two children, Lady Emily Elizabeth Bulwer-Lytton ( 1828 – 1848 ), and ( Edward ) Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton ( 1831 – 1891 ) who became Governor-General and Viceroy of British India ( 1876 – 1880 ).
* 1705 – Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer ( d. 1781 )
* 1609 – Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English historian ( d. 1674 )
His uncle, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset tampered with Henry VIII's will and obtained letters patent giving him much of the power of a monarch by March 1547.
In 1547, after the death of Henry VIII, forces under the English regent Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset were victorious at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, the climax of the Rough Wooing, and followed up by the occupation of Haddington.
* 1355 – Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, son of Edward III of England ( d. 1397 )
* 1585 – Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, English admiral ( b. 1512 )
* Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
Mary's uncle was King Charles II, who ruled the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland ; her maternal grandfather, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, served for a lengthy period as Charles's chief advisor.
Guided by John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, and perhaps others, Edward excluded both of his sisters from the line of succession in his will.
In contrast, their other surviving brother, George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, fell out with Edward and was executed for treason.
Bruce's family also included his brothers, Edward, Alexander, Thomas, and Neil, his sisters Christina, Isabel ( Queen of Norway ), Margaret, Matilda, and Mary, and his nephews Donald II, Earl of Mar and Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray.
Later that year, or in early 1655, he entered the household of another of his father's cousins, Sir Edward Montagu, who would later be made 1st Earl of Sandwich.
* Col. Sir Edward Villiers ( 1620-1689 ; father of Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey )
The Tudors descended on Henry VII's mother's side from John Beaufort, one of the illegitimate children of the 14th century English Prince John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster ( the third surviving son of Edward III of England ) by Gaunt's long-term mistress Katherine Swynford.
Edward James Eliot, oldest son of the 1st Baron Eliot, in 1785 ; one child.
* Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March ( 1287 – 1330 ) an English nobleman, was for three years de facto ruler of England, after leading a successful rebellion against Edward II.
Edward and Earl
* 1550 – Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford ( d. 1604 )
* Alphonso, Earl of Chester, first son of Edward I of England, who died at the age of ten.
* 1471 – In England, the Yorkists under Edward IV defeat the Lancastrians under the Earl of Warwick at the Battle of Barnet ; the Earl is killed and Edward IV resumes the throne.
* 910 – The last major Danish army to raid England is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward the Elder and Earl Aethelred of Mercia.
The current most senior living descendant of the Electress Sophia who is ineligible to succeed due to the act is George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews, the eldest son of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, who married the Roman Catholic Sylvana Palma Tomaselli in 1988 ; he would now be 29th in the lines of succession if he had not lost his place.
* 1332 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Dupplin Moor – Scots under Domhnall II, Earl of Mar are routed by Edward Balliol.
* 1265 – Second Barons ' War: Battle of Evesham – the army of Prince Edward ( the future king Edward I of England ) defeats the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, killing de Montfort and many of his allies.
On 5 August, Leander was despatched to Cadiz with messages for Earl St. Vincent carried by Captain Edward Berry.
In 1775, Darwin met Elizabeth Pole, daughter of Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore, and wife of Colonel Edward Pole ( 1718 – 1780 ); but as she was married, Darwin could only make his feelings known for her through poetry.
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford ( 12 April 155024 June 1604 ) was an English peer and courtier of the Elizabethan era.
Twelve-year-old Edward was now the 17th Earl of Oxford and Lord Great Chamberlain of England, and heir to an estate whose annual income, though assessed at approximately £ 2, 500, may have run as high as £ 3, 500.
On 1562, John de Vere had contracted with Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon for Edward to marry one of Huntingdon's sisters ; when he reached the age of 18, he would choose either Elizabeth or Mary Hastings.
Portrait of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger.
In July Elizabeth granted the Earl property which been seized from Edward Jones, who had been executed for his role in the Babington plot.
* Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton ( 1803 – 73 )
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His struggles for power against Godwin, Earl of Wessex, the claims of Canute's Scandinavian successors, and the ambitions of the Normans whom Edward introduced to English politics to bolster his own position caused each to vie for control Edward's reign.
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